San Bernardino Mass Shooting

At least 14 people were killed and 21 others injured by assailants who opened fire Wednesday morning on a training session of county employees at a facility that serves developmentally disabled people.

At first shocked, then distraught, by Thursday night San Bernardino had begun to recover as details of the investigation into Wednesday’s mass shooting began to surface and the names of victims were made public.

Until Dec. 2, none of the roughly 300 emergency personnel who responded to the carnage and chaos at the Inland Regional Center had ever imagined anything like Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik’s terrorist attack, which killed 14 people and wounded 21 more.

“I’ll take a bullet before you, that’s for damned sure,” a law-enforcement officer tells people he’s evacuating from the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, after a mass shooting that killed 14 and injured more than a dozen.

Twelve pipe bombs and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found at the Redlands home rented by Syed Rizwan Farook, said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan in a news conference Thursday morning.

In 2012, San Bernardino mass shooter Syed Farook and then-neighbor Enrique Marquez were plotting a terrorist attack, but apparently got cold feet after four men were arrested in connection with a terrorist plot in the area.

As new details emerge about Syed Rizwan Farook and Enrique Marquez’s involvement in the San Bernardino shooting, one neighbor, Rosie Aguirre, who has lived on Tomlinson Avenue for more than two decades, described Farook as being reserved and Marquez as being more friendly.

In the confusing hours between when the shooting began at a Christmas party at the Inland Regional Center and when perpetrators Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed less than a mile away, the public and media watched and listened along on radio, television and the Internet.

Response

Thousands filed into San Manuel Stadium Thursday evening as individuals to remember the 14 victims who died in Wednesday’s mass shooting at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center — but left as a united community.

Gasser Shehata and Abdurrahmaan Aliare among a segment of diverse Muslim-Americans who are wondering whether more could have been done to prevent the devastating San Bernardino massacre. Leaders and worshippers of at least two mosques where Syed Rizwan Farook regularly attended in recent years said the reserved man showed no sign of anger, radicalism or instability for them to address.

From Colorado, Frank DeAngelis, principal of Columbine High School, watched the tragedy unfold in San Bernardino, where 14 were shot and killed at the Inland Regional Center. “They’re now a part of a club nobody wants to be a member of,” he said. “They’re going to have to redefine normal now.”

False bomb threats have surged since the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, in a region already on edge. There doesn’t appear to be any connection between the threats from multiple sources, and all have been cleared without any weapons found.

In the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, community members are coming together to donate funds for the victims of Wednesday’s attack. Here’s how you can help.

For two days, we wondered what motivated a 28-year-old environmental health specialist and his 27-year-old wife to attack a room full of his colleagues with assault rifles and explosives, killing 14 and wounding 21 at a holiday celebration at Inland Regional Center.

As much as the city of San Bernardino has been through, there’s never been a week as horrible as the past one. Yet the citizens of this city stand strong and stand together, supported by the thoughts and prayers of a nation now concerned about terror at home.